Data Quality Analyst Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Quality Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Quality Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 566 556
Rank change year-on-year +70 -10 +201
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Quality Analyst 20 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.011% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.012% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 16 2 5
10th Percentile - £36,750 £40,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £46,438 £54,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £54,500 £56,250 £63,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,105 33,579 32,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 92.94% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 23,220 16,417 24,649
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,760
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Data Quality Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Quality Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Data Quality Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Quality Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Data Quality Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Data Quality Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Data Quality Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Quality Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +33 7 £42,500 -22.73%
North of England +21 7 £42,500 +6.25%
East Midlands - 6 £42,500 -
Yorkshire - 4 £42,500 -
South East +32 3 - -
North West +26 3 £53,000 +32.50%
Scotland - 2 £44,000 -
West Midlands +24 1 £42,500 -22.73%
East of England - 1 - -
Data Quality Analyst
UK

Data Quality Analyst Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 January 2026, Data Quality Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Quality Analyst in the job title.

1 19 (95.00%) Data Quality
2 17 (85.00%) SQL
3 13 (65.00%) Data Cleansing
3 13 (65.00%) Migration
3 13 (65.00%) Tableau
3 13 (65.00%) Validation
4 11 (55.00%) BigQuery
4 11 (55.00%) Data Validation
4 11 (55.00%) Data Visualisation
4 11 (55.00%) Python
4 11 (55.00%) Visualisation
5 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (20.00%) Databricks
6 4 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (20.00%) Power BI
6 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (15.00%) Data Management
8 2 (10.00%) Data Architecture
8 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
8 2 (10.00%) Metadata
8 2 (10.00%) Metadata Management
8 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (5.00%) Information Governance

Data Quality Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) Tableau
2 11 (55.00%) BigQuery
3 4 (20.00%) Power BI
4 2 (10.00%) Metadata
General
1 11 (55.00%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Data Cleansing
1 13 (65.00%) Migration
1 13 (65.00%) Validation
2 11 (55.00%) Data Validation
2 11 (55.00%) Data Visualisation
2 11 (55.00%) Visualisation
3 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 4 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 4 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.00%) Data Management
6 2 (10.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Metadata Management
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.00%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) SQL
2 11 (55.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (95.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks